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Artists: Betül Aksu, Bilal Yılmazel, Burak Delier, Ceren Su Çelik, Dilek Winchester, Ece Eldek, Gökçe Hiçyılmaz, Ömer İpekçi & Francesco Romero & Francesca Gotti, Tayfun Gülnar

Curator: Eda Öztürk

January 14 – February 27, 2022

Mixer hosts the exhibition “Coulisse,” curated by Eda Öztürk and comprising the works of Betül Aksu, Bilal Yılmazel, Burak Delier, Ceren Su Çelik, Dilek Winchester, Ece Eldek, Gökçe Hiçyılmaz, Ömer İpekçi & Francesco Romero & Francesca Gotti, and Tayfun Gülnar between January 14 and February 27, 2022.

Departing from Eda Öztürk’s ongoing doctoral research on the sociology of art in France, centered around the art scene in Istanbul, the exhibition focuses on the reflections of the concept of “liquid modernity,” a term that is coined by Zygmunt Bauman and embedded in the conceptual framework of this research, on both the art scene and the societal level.

Through the concept of “liquid modernity,” Bauman expresses modernity’s transition from a “solid” phase into a “liquid” phase. This period, in which we live, is characterized by the “liquefaction” of all forms of thought, action and association that are solid, with clearly demarcated borders and settled around a center. In parallel with the uncertain and precarious conditions of liquid modernity, social actors’ temporal-spatial experience, interactions in daily life, identity construction, and labor processes have also been transformed. In addition to being a descriptive concept for the contemporary era, the state of “being liquid” refers to the ability of actors to easily switch positions in order to adapt to these conditions in the face of altering circumstances in both the social area and the scene of art. The exhibition brings together artists working in multiple medias ranging from painting, sculpture, installation, video to photography, new media and scent. Coulisse aims to lay ground for a critical dialogue on the new forms of relationalities in the areas where the boundaries of dualistic categories such as human/non-human animal, human/machine, conscious/unconscious, public/private and art/market are intertwined and fluidized.

The exhibition Coulisse can be visited at Mixer’s main gallery space between January 14 and February 27.